... The Bevellers EDINBURGH THE LYCEUM seems to be attached to the seventies this season. After the success of The Comedians, the company has now revived another play in which flapping flares and mohair coats are de rigueur. The Bevellers is the story of a run- of-the-mill working day in a bevelling factory. An explanation of the craft is slipped in incongruously as there is a new boy on his first ...

... SNAPS The 1996 Rose Bruford Memorial Trust Director's Award has been given to Nigel E Higginson from Manchester. He will work at the city's Royal Exchange, Northern Broadsides and Sheffield Crucible. Britain's only indepen dent design course will be holding its end of year exhibition at The Royal National Theatre studio next week. The Motley Theatre Design show will include scale models of ...

... . FILMS SHOWING. Great Britain is not particularly well represented in tho Easter programmes, although a number of players who are popular here have their places on f screen Rookery Nook, the Tom Walls British and Dominions feature, which has already enjoyed a highly tui run at the New Gallery, has started a second at the Astoria. Stewart Romo and Frances Doblo are being seen in. Dark Red ...

... FILM VIEW I PROMISED readers of this column more details of the newly-formed Rapallo Pictures, now in the process of making their first series, an anthology of half-hour plays with the over-all title of Rendezvous. Here thev are. This first venture is partly financed by America's C.B.S. and our own Associated-Rediffusion. C.B.S. will distribute in the Western Hemisphere and A-R in the ...

... VALERY HOVENDENS current production of Macbeth at the Hovenden Theatre Club from Sunday to Friday of this week, prior to a special performance at the George Inn. Southwark, on Saturday afternoon, is virtually the same as that which gained acclaim during their Malta season last December. Inevitably there have had to be some cast changes, and this week sees Viera Shelley making her debut ...

... ARTS COUNCIL TOURS OR REPS.? To the Editor of The Stack. Dear Sir, I have read with In terest your article on the work of the Arts Council. Many people up and down the countryside who came to take an active interest in the theatre through the old pfay- tour method feel that they have been let down by being cut off from their C.E.M.A. plays. Has not the trouble with our theatre always been ...

... Anglo-Indian 'Othello' rpHE Touchstone Thc.it re Com- pany, a group of amateurs with high ambitions, presented a production of Othello with Ranen Roy, an Indian actor, as the Moor at Unity, on August 30. Francis Butler's direction, especi ally on this small stage, was notable for its pace and breadth, although subtlety and a unifying style were lacking. Mr. Roy, tall and broad, looked an ...

... THOSE rare birds who have never had the pleasure of seeing Twelfth Night, and all those who have seen it seldom, will enjoy the current Old Vic production by Colin Graham, which is the same as last season but with a new young cast. They will find in Eileen Atkins, the Viola, a young woman of char acter who, with proper guidance and opportunity, should make the grade to an established ...

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... YOU Won't Always Be On Top, first seen at the Royal. Stratford, some three years ago, arrived at Unity on August 12 wilh some songs by Barbara Chapman but with all the defects one noticed on the previous occasion. The chief fault is that Henry Chapman's work is not really a play at all. It is more akin to what the television people call a dramatised documentary, dealing as it does with what ...

... 'Love's Labour's Lost' FOLLOWING the slovenly misrepresentation of Henry IV at the Assembly Hall last week, the Bristol Old Vic production of Love's Labour's Lost came to the Edinburgh Lyceum on August 25 as a heart-warming reminder of just how effective a Shakespearean comedy can be when staged with understanding and intelligence. The verbal wit and visual humour are kept bubbling along ...

... 'A Man and a Circus Ring' A PRIZE for originality is deserved by the Theatre Group of the Royal College of Art, London, for eschewing the church halls of Edinburgh and performing their contribution to the Festival Fringe, A Man and a Circus Ring, in a maruuee disguised as a circus tent. The show, which opened on August 18, is an entertaining and noisy frolic with a serious core, an aspect ...